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Archive: September 2013 (4 Posts)

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

The FSA/OWI Collection: New Videos Provide a Visual Introduction

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

How can one ever come to understand a collection of 170,000 pictures? If you read my post a few weeks ago about finding unprinted Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI) photographs, you probably quickly realized that the collection is complex, consisting of many interrelated parts. I hope you also got a sense of the …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Caught Our Eyes: An Auto House

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

This September 1924 National Photo Company image of an auto house caught my eye not only because of the delight it sparked in seeing such a novel vehicle, but also because the lack of contextual information set me to wondering and wanting to know more. For example, assuming that the photo shows Mr. Harris and …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Sanctuary for Birds—A Remarkable Pageant’s 100th Anniversary

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

The following is a guest post by Donna Lacy Collins, Photo Preservation Specialist, Prints & Photographs Division. An exciting part of working with the Library’s collections is finding unexpected and curious images. When I discovered this picture in the Arnold Genthe archive of photographic negatives, labeled simply “Cornish bird masque,” I knew I had to …